Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-21
Seed FOR TEXAS.
Favorable Report on Lanham's Bill
for a Distribution of Seed in the
Texas Orouth District.
Ehe House Committee on Territories
in Favor OF Admitting Montana
and Washington as States.
Sunset Cox Reported as Rapidly Inn
proving-The Administration Backing
Belmont's Canadian Policy.
FOR THE RELIEF OF TEXAS.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-The house
committee on agriculture to-day reported
favorably to the house Representative
Lanham's bill, to enable the commissioner
of agriculture to make special distribu-
ton of seed in the drouth stricken
counties of Texas. The bill is amended
by reducing from $4,000 to $4,000
the appropriation for the supply of seeds.
In its report the committee says an IN
precedented drouth obtained in about
twenty-one counties of the state of Texas:
that this drouth has existed for
more than one year with slight
exceptions and that there has been prac-
tically total loss of crops in these coun-
ties, and that the great dearth and desti-
tuition existing are likely to become more
aggravated.
CANDIDATES FOR STATESHIP.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-In its report
upon the senate bill to provide for the
admission of Washington Territory as a
state of the Union, the house committee
on territorities says that it is Of the opin-
ion that Washington Territory has all the
elements of wealth, intelligence and local
development to enable her people to
successfully establish and maintain q
state government.
The committee then took up the claim
of Montana for admission to the Union,
and after speaking favorablY of it recon-
mends that the original senate bill
which provided for the admission
of Washington Territory with portion
of Idaho added be so amended, as to in
clude the Territory of Montana, and that
the constitution of he proposed states
of Washington and Montana be submitted
TO congress instead of to the president as
provided in the senate bill.
SUNSET cox STILL IMPROVING.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 90 Hon. S. S. Cox
rested well last night and is stronger To-
day than he has been for some time. He
sat up two hours.
OUR RELATIONS WITH CANADA.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2O-There can be
no longer any doubt as to the position of
the administration, or Of the committees
of foreign affairs of the two houses on the
subject of the fisheries, or of the attitude
of Canada with respect to them. The
house committee on foreign affairs, unan-
imously, and the senate committee
on foreign affairs have made
to their respective houses reports
which look to nOn-intercourse with Can
ada in the event that the present policy
OF the Dominion government in regard to
American fisheries shall be continued.
The language of the resolution presented
by Mr.. German is not less emphatic, and
will not be considered by the Canadian
government as less offensive, than the
striking language of the report of
the house committee on foreign affairs.
The latter makes the direct charge that
Canada is actuated by selfish motives,
and has adopted her present policy for the
avowed purpose of coercing the United
States into customs policy which is not
approved by the maj ority in congress. One
of the strong arguments recently made in
opposition to the passage of the inter-
state commerce bill was that the effect of
1t would be to build up the Canadian
trunk lines at the expense of the railroad
system of the United States. The prOpo-
sition now formally submitted to the two
houses looks more 20 non-intercourse
with ansds by land and sea than to a
transfer of the through traffic of the
United States between the seaboard and
the lakes to the Grand Trunk and the
Canadian Pacific. There was very sharp
division of opinion on the party lines
at the last session Of congress on the
subject of the fisheries, and the New En-
gland element IN congress was charged
with being somewhat aggressive, but
from the beginning of this session there
has been marked change in the public
utterances of members of the admins
tratiOn, and now the two parties seem to
occupy common ground in their
aggressive position toward the Do
minion. The recent letter of Sec
Rotary Manning on the fisheries has
tainly not the language of diplomacy, but
there is good reason for stating that,
while the secretary of state could not
have adopted so vigorous language in
communications which he might make
to friendly foreign countries, Mr.. Man
ning's letter was not given to the public
without the full knowledge and APP
proval of both the president and of
the secretary Of state. 1t is
now stated by those who ought
to know, moreover, inst the ag-
gressive bill introduced by Mr.. Belmont
on MONDAY mas the approval OF the state
if it was not drafted there,
ana that the report which Mr.. Belmont
has Just made from the committee on
foreign affairs likewise has the approval
of the secretary of state. Just now, so
far as the committees are concerned,
there seems TO be but one side Of this
question in the two houses, the other
side being represented in Washington
alone by the British minister.
GRANT AND SAN DOMINGO.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Mr. A. II.
Markland of this city says that after Gen.
Grants election to the presidency in 1858
he (narkland) was, through the instru-
OF prominent citizen,
made acquainted with the fact
that President Bsez of San
Domingo was very anxious that that
island should be acquired by the United
States, and price for the transfer had
been fixed. Mr.. MARYLAND says Gen.
Grant knew nothing of the matter until
in February, 1869, shortly before his in
auguration, when MARYLAND, in the pres